[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters - IST for Organizational Agility, Intelligence and Resilience
Rui Dinis Sousa
rds at dsi.uminho.pt
Wed Mar 13 07:48:10 EDT 2013
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2013
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: July 30, 2013
Information Systems and Technology for Organizational Agility, Intelligence
and Resilience
A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr. Rui Dinis de Sousa, Centro
Algoritmi, University of Minho, Portugal
To be published by IGI Global: <http://www.igi-global.com>
http://www.igi-global.com
(Call for the chapter:
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/931 )
Introduction
The contemporary global economy requires innovative organizations and
employees with novel skills, attitudes, and intellectual agility.
Organizations and individuals must be able to take advantage of scientific
and technological developments to become more innovative and competitive by
pursuing flexibility in communication and decision making, as well as
knowledge sharing and collaboration, in a trustworthy and secure
organizational and technological environment. In these aspects, information
systems and information technology (IS/IT) play a central role as promoters
of new initiatives to communicate, work, do business, relate, act, manage,
and lead. Similarly, manifestations like e-/m-commerce, e-/m-markets,
e-/m-business, e-/m-tourism, e-/m-governance, e-/m-learning, e-democracy,
e-/m-collaboration, crowdsourcing, intermediation, and others have emerged
in recent years, conveying IS/IT that influence the way individuals and
organizations see themselves, others, and the possibilities for vibrant
interaction. At the same time, Web technologies and IT applications such as
decision support systems, workflow management systems, enterprise systems,
value-chain management systems, and document and content management systems
have allowed these systems to increase organizational productivity, bring
the organization closer to its stakeholders, and create new forms of
competition and inter-organizational collaboration. Foremost, a variety of
theories, methods, best practices, and tools have been developed in
different scientific areas to support the design and implementation of
initiatives aimed in promoting organizational learning, organizational
memory, and the transformation of organizational identity to improve
organizational agility, intelligence, and resilience.
Overall Objective of the Book
The main contributor of this book is comprised of a group that carries out
research on IS/IT through interdisciplinary research and development
projects (such as transfer of knowledge, dissemination of knowledge, and
various other research approaches including basic, transactional, and
clinical research), as well as advanced training projects aiming to develop
systematic and comprehensive strategies that promote overall organizational
well-being. The main aim is to advise and support organizational agents who
want ensure success in terms of financial, social, and environmental aspects
as well as in the aspect of human development in a more sustainable way. The
broad objective of this book will be to incorporate methods and technologies
for the development of a sustained organization among the contemporary
issues, such as increased globalization, economic crisis, short product life
cycle, augmented competition, and amplified innovation. However, in
specific, the scope of the book would like to include conceptual research,
methodological aspects, empirical cases (using conventional instruments like
survey, interview, literature review, case studies, and others), and
especially success cases illustrating practices of the above mentioned
instruments.
Target Audience
The target audience may incorporate academics, researchers, intermediaries,
policy initiators, associations, subsidiaries, and individuals who would
like to initiate a start-up, rejuvenate the existing enterprise, or
collaborate with other partners for better competencies and value addition,
not only in terms of finance, but also in respect to knowledge gain that, in
the long run, assists in financial gain. In these aspects, this book will be
a valuable asset to the small and medium entrepreneurs; associations dealing
with small organizations; corporate business sectors; intermediaries;
knowledge managers including academics, researchers, government, and
non-government staffs; and policy initiators.
Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Information Systems and Technologies in Organizations with a Broad Vision of
the Field, like
Issues of Research and Development in IST
e-/m-commerce
e-/m-market
e-/m-business
e-/m-tourism
e-/m-governance
e-/m-learning
e-democracy
e-/m-collaboration
e-research
Innovation
Crowdsourcing
Intermediation
The Future of IST in Organizations
Emerging Issues in IST in Organizations of Various Industrial Sectors
Organizational Intelligence (OI)
Frameworks and diagnostic tools
Collective intelligence and IST that promote OI
Distributed Cognition
Open business models and technologies
Open innovation
Knowledge networks
Social networks
On-line communities
Collaboration and future prediction
Organizational Agility
Frameworks and diagnostic tools
Innovation strategies and technologies
Organizational processes and structures
Politics, culture, and IST
IST role in building trust and reputation
IST role in building identity and image
Organizational Resilience
Frameworks and diagnostic tools
Adopting IST to become more resilient
IST to monitor environment and predict changes
Technologies to support individuals and organizations to connect,
collaborate, and act collectively during the response and recovery phase of
disasters
Citizen engagement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies
that increase resilience
The IST Focus and Cases in Organizational Well Being
Knowledge & Innovation Management
Business Process Management (BPM)
IS Security Management
IS Development
Case Studies from Various Business Sectors and Organizations
Entrepreneurships
Not-for-profit or non-profit entities (sustained cases)
Government organizations
Research organizations
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 30,
2013, a 2-3 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his
or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by
April 30, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent case guidelines.
Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2013. All submitted
chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may
also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group
Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, and IGI Publishing
imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.
Important Dates:
March 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
April 30, 2013: Notification of Acceptance
July 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
September 30, 2013: Review Result Returned
October 30, 2013: Final Chapter Submission
Editorial Advisory Board Members:
João Alvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
Kevin DeSouza, Arizona State University, USA
Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do
Porto, Portugal
Gilberto Perez, Universidade Mackenzie de São Paulo Brazil
Amiram Porath, College for Academic Studies, Israel
Paresh Rathod, Lauria University, Finland
Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document)
to:
Prof. Hakikur Rahman
University of Minho
DSI, Azurem
4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 510 319 FAX: +351 253 510 300 GSM: +351 960193872
e-mail: <mailto:hakik at dsi.uminho.pt> hakik at dsi.uminho.pt
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